9 An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry.—Tennyson.
10. A pet lamb makes a cross ram.
11. A reasonable word should be received even from a child or a parrot.—Sanskrit.
12. A simple child
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?—Wordsworth.
13. As sair greets [as much weeps] the bairn that's paid at e'en as he that gets his whawks in the morning.—Scotch.
14. A tarrowing bairn was never fat.—Scotch.
15. Auld men are twice bairns.—Scotch.
16. Auld wives and bairns make fools of physicians.—Scotch.
17. Bairns are certain care, but nae sure joy.—Scotch.
18. Be born neither wise nor fair, but lucky.—Russian.